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Jolly Fellows
1934, Dec 09
1h 36m
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Written by
Nikolay Erdman, Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Mass
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
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